The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 31

‘Only give them to me, my lord, and I will manage somehow!’ and at a sign from the wise man Stan went his way.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, manage, go · To what, where: lord, children, way, sign

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lord	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lord	nmod:poss
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 manage	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	aux
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
15	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	14 manage	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 sign	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sign	nmod
26	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	my lord	children = child		to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
2	manage	future	I				somehow property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	you not said here	man's way		a sign from the wise man Stan		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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